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Arts of the Islamic World

On View: Trippe House, 4th Floor

The taste for accumulating precious objects of different genres and displaying them together was not exclusive to Spanish America. Similar practices, though more restrained, were common in wealthy seventeenth-century New England homes. Locally made tables were draped with expensive Oriental carpets and topped with costly imported English pottery, pewter, or silver. Carpets were rare in British America and would seldom have been laid on the floor, as was common practice in Spanish America.

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